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Grass tree

Grass tree Meaning & Definition
Grass tree Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Grass tree?

[n] gaunt Tasmanian evergreen shrubby tree with slender tapering leaves 3 to 5 feet long
[n] any of several Australian evergreen perennials having short thick woody stems crowned by a tuft of grasslike foliage and yielding acaroid resins
[n] elegant tree having either a single trunk or a branching trunk each with terminal clusters of long narrow leaves and large panicles of fragrant white, yellow or red flowers; New Zealand

Synonyms | Synonyms for Grass tree: Australian grass tree | cabbage tree | Cordyline australis | Richea pandanifolia | tree heath

Related Terms | Find terms related to Grass tree:

See Also | arborescent plant | Australian heath | Cordyline | genus Cordyline | genus Richea | genus Xanthorroea | Richea | tree | Xanthorroea

Grass tree In Webster's Dictionary

\Grass" tree"\ (Bot.) (a) An Australian plant of the genus {Xanthorrh[oe]a}, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called ``blackboys'' from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called {Botany-bay gum}, and {Gum Acaroides}. (b) A similar Australian plant ({Kingia australis}).

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